Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed

Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed (born 1948) was Minister of Social Welfare of Bangladesh from 2001 to 2006 and the second-in-command of the Al-Badr militia of East Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Biography
Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed was born in 1948 in Faridpur, East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) and he studied at Dhaka University in 1970. In 1971, under the command of Motiur Rahman, he fought in Jamaat-e-Islami's Muslim Al-Badr paramilitary militia that remained loyal to Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War. In October 1971, he took over command of the militia from Rahman and was held responsible for the deaths of 60 Hindus and the destruction of 350 houses. From 1986-1996 and 2008 he was a member of parliament and from 2001 to 2006 he was the Minister of Social Welfare. In 2013, he was sentenced to death for war crimes.